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Most insane familiy van EVER?! – Renault Espace F1 HOT WHEELS FEATURETTE
More than insane… It simply was a crazy story. In the mid-1990s, Renault launched a one-off version of the Espace. With an 811 hp naturally aspirated V10 engine from Formula 1, which accelerated the family van to 100 km/h in 2.8 seconds. Now it is finally coming to us as a Hot Wheels Mainliner base model. We take another look back at one of the most extreme vehicles that has ever existed. A Renault Espace can do a lot, for example packing up the extended family and taking them on holiday in comfort. But accelerating to 100 km/h as fast as a current Porsche 911 GT2 RS with 700 hp,…
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Car Key Garage – BIGGEST MUST HAVE for car enthusiasts?
The idea could hardly be simpler… …but as is so often the case, you have to come up with the idea first. We’re talking about one of the coolest gift ideas for car and model car enthusiasts of 2025: the Car Key Garage, a cool looking box to hold your keys! If you swipe a little through the shorts on YouTube, reels on Instagram or videos on Tiktok, you’ve probably already come across this cool gadget by chance. Because this product is currently on everyone’s lips on social media, and not just from this manufacturer. There are now several suppliers on the market and you can also buy the 3D…
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Legends of Le Mans: Porsche 956 vs 962 – What’s their difference? – Sparky FEATURETTE
The model car manufacturer Spark has been supplying excellent models in all possible scales for many years, and has been doing so for more than 25 years since. Now, on the occasion of the company’s 25th anniversary, Spark continues to deliver consistently and releases racing legends by the meter. Under the name Sparky we understand the models in scale 1:64, which Spark has also covered for several years. For us as collectors of model cars in this scale, this is a special welcome gift. Thanks to Spark, we collectors have the opportunity to place officially licensed vehicles with a very high standard of detail in our display cases. This includes…
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Hot Wheels Elite64 McLaren M6 GT – The forgotten legend FEATURETTE
How it all started – Bruce McLaren in a Nutshell: Bruce McLaren was certainly more than a legend. Born in New Zealand in 1937, he drove his first car races at the age of 15. In 1958, the Australian Jack Brabham brought him into Cooper’s Formula 1 team, and in 1959, at the age of 22, McLaren became the youngest winner of a Formula 1 race at the time. In 1966, he founded his own racing team, and in 1969 he finished third in the world championship in a racing car he had designed himself; he was able to take a total of four Grand Prix victories. But on 2…
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Hot Wheels x Ferrari 2025 FEATURETTE
Now the time has finally come, Hot Wheels has officially announced before the toy fair in Nuremberg: Ferrari and Hot Wheels are joining forces again this year 2025! And this after more than 11 years of radio silence. Between 1970 and 2014, many hundreds of different Ferrari models were released before the contract was officially terminated on 31th December 2014. In this article, we look back on the 44 years that Hot Wheels has provided us with great models and dare to take a look into the crystal ball. Because this announcement leaves room for many questions in the future as far as Hot Wheels and Ferrari are concerned. That’s…
